Letter from H. Hallings Latham to Sir Robert Ponsonby Staples, 2 May 1916 Letters 1916-1923 H Hallings Latham

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 Public Record Office of Northern Ireland Staples Papers D1567-F-13-13-3 https://letters1916.ie/item/4132 English H Hallings Latham 1916-05-02 Robert Ponsonby Staples Lissan, Cookstown, Co. Tyrone, Ireland Male Personal Relations World War I (1914-1918) Personal Relations

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 H.M.S. 'Glendevon' c/o G.P.O. May 2nd 1916. Dear Mr. Staples I expect you will have heard by this time of your son's safe arrival; if not I believe, as far as I can make out, the Director of Military Transport at the War Office is the correct person to write to. But any how you may rest assured that he is quite safe, unless you have heard to the contrary from the War Office. They would inform you at once if any thing had happened to your son anyway & they are really marvellously quick at letting relatives know of any bad news, so not having received this, it is always a case of the old saying these days:— "No news is good news" With kind regards, hoping you & Mrs Staples are in the best of health & will have good news from your boy Yours sincerely H. Hallings. Latham. R. Ponsonby Staples Esqre Lissan Cookstown Co. Tyrone. Comander Latham Lissan, Cookstown, Co. Tyrone, Ireland Letter from H. Hallings Latham to Sir Robert Ponsonby Staples, 2 May 1916Letter from Pembroke Wicks to Sir Robert Ponsonby Staples, 1 February 1916 H Hallings Latham Letter from H. Hallings Latham to Sir Robert Ponsonby Staples, 2 May 1916